How much have you retained from your college classes?

[Syringer]

Specifically your major classes, but general ed as well..e.g. if you were to take some midterms/finals, with an open book or even attempted to do some homework based off of your classes, how well would you do?

As I stated in another thread tonight, I was a math major and I've looked back at some of the material that I did in the past, and honestly have no clue what any of it means, and struggle to believe that I actually graduated--since a lot of it was foreign to me at the time as well.

I remember some exams I would score a 15/50 or 30/100, and that would be the average in the class which somehow netted me a 'B' in that class..mainly because I hung around smart kids doing homework and always did well on those.

I'm sure it's different for the engineers here who have to apply some of what they learned in college on a daily basis, but I can confidently say I have yet to, and don't ever plan on applying anything that I ever learned in college for the rest of my life..

 

[nageov3t]

I don't remember a lot of specifics, but if I were to read a paragraph on, like, Weber's iron cage, the details would come back to be fairly quickly.

 

[Chaotic42]

Not much. I don't use any math beyond trigonometry on a daily basis, so I've forgotten most of it. The concepts are still there though.

 

[GhettoFob]

~0%

 

[Insomniator]

Originally posted by: GhettoFob
~0%

 

[Jeff7]

Hell, I finished Calculus II just about...oh, I think it's been 2 years now? Most of it is gone. Derivative or integral of tangent? Not a clue. Derivative of log x? Gone.
I do still have my calc notes though, so there'd at least be some hope of reviving long-dead memories.

But I'm not even done here, and I've already lost a lot of the earlier semesters.

 

[Pocatello]

What's the point of higher education? My sociology professor once said, "So we wouldn't have too many young people looking for jobs."

 

[esun]

I tend to forget things very quickly if I don't use them often. Hence, I would say I have forgotten a lot of things I learned in undergrad, but some of it I still know extremely well (namely circuit analysis, but then again I am in grad school in circuit design, so that makes sense).

Then again, the purpose of college (to me) has always been to learn _how_ to learn, not to learn specific material (though that is a beneficial side-effect). I definitely still have that skill.

 

[Omegachi]

maybe some of the basics...other than that, i am totally lost and i don't want to spend the effort to re-understand the material again.

 

[Connoisseur]

Absolute zippo. Electrical and Computer Engineering here. Give me a DSD or an electrical engineering book and i'll look at you like you gave me a giant bag of feces. I graduated for the diploma... as did ~80-90% of the ECE population I suspect.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I'm a comp sci / programming major so I'll be using much of what I learn for the next 10-25 years (presumably).

 

[Mo0o]

Mostly the basics but relearning it would be significantly quicker

 

[Bateluer]

If you don't use it, you lose it.

I've definitely forgotten 99.999% of the mathematics I've studied, it simply never gets used in day to day life.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
If you don't use it, you lose it.

I've definitely forgotten 99.999% of the mathematics I've studied, it simply never gets used in day to day life.

That is the answer.

 

[wwswimming]

as part of a graduate class on electromagnetic field theory, dynamics, we derived
Snell's Law from Maxwell's equations. i still have that particular homework, but
i couldn't do it from memory.

Snell's law is about reflection/refraction.

 

[SpunkyJones]

I vaguely recall attending college.

 

[ViviTheMage]

lots of random stuff is what I remember, especially stuff OUTSIDE my field...haha.

geography...my TV/Film classes...

 

[Shawn]

not much

 

[ForumMaster]

zero. it might be because i have only finished high school this summer...

after the army i have to do an exam called physcometry test. after 3-4 years minimum, i doubt i'll remember anything from the school.